Mar vs Insult - What's the difference?

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Mar is a related term of insult.

As nouns the difference between mar and insult

is that mar is sea while insult is an action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.

As a verb insult is

(obsolete|intransitive) to behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).

mar

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Verb

(marr)

To spoil, to damage.

* Dryden

But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.

* Milton

Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.

Etymology 2

See (m).

Noun

(en noun)

A small lake.

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

* (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) ----

insult

English

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (over, against).

*, II.3.3:

thou hast lost all, poor thou art, dejected, in pain of body, grief of mind, thine enemies insult over thee, thou art as bad as Job […].

To offend (someone) by being rude, insensitive or insolent; to demean or affront (someone).

(obsolete) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

* (to offend) abuse, affront, offend, slight * See also

Antonyms

*compliment

Noun

(en noun)

An action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude.

* Savage

the ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief

* 1987 , Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda :

To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!

Anything that causes offence/offense, e.g. by being of an unacceptable quality.

The way the orchestra performed tonight was an insult to my ears.

(medicine) Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes.

* 2006 , Stephen G. Lomber, Jos J. Eggermont, Reprogramming the Cerebral Cortex (page 415)

* 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 96:

Within the complex genome of most organisms there are alternative multiple pathways of proteins which can help the individual cell survive a variety of insults , for example radiation, toxic chemicals, heat, excessive or reduced oxygen.

(obsolete) The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

(Dryden)

Synonyms

* (deliberatedly intended to be rude) abuse (uncountable), affront, offence (UK)/offense (US), pejorative, slam, slight, slur * (thing causing offence by being of unacceptable quality) disgrace, outrage * See also

Antonyms

*compliment

Anagrams

* * English heteronyms